Today's News

Beginning this week, TVA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be holding a series of six workshops on the restoration of the river system affected by the December 2008 fly ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant.

The one-hour workshops will cover topics ranging from wildlife impacts and studies, to cleanup costs, to the impact of ash that remains in the river system.

Much of the 5 million cubic yards of ash that flowed from the site ended up in the Emory River.

Turnout at the public hearing for the director of Roane County Schools search was a small group, but one sentiment stood out.

That was to interview all those from Roane County who applied.

“I was a little disappointed when I read in the newspaper that we took a vote and decided that we weren’t going to interview all the people in Roane County that are teachers or principals or whatever they are that wanted to interview for this job,” said Roane County Commissioner Bobby Collier.

The Kingston Lady Yellow Jackets came within one game of making the TSSAA Class AA State Tournament last season, and if Monday is any indication, Ronnie Ladd’s squad will be making a run at Murfreesboro again this season as Kingston crushed Sequoyah in the season opener for both teams, 16-0.

A veterans hospital in Harriman would be a tremendous benefit for area veterans who now travel about two and a half hours for treatments they cannot get at local VA clinics.

That is why veteran Tommy True would like to see Roane Medical Center’s current location be turned into a veterans hospital once the facilities’ operations are moved to the new Midtown facility under construction by Covenant Health.

Roane State Community College students spending their days creating and editing programming for a new show on local cable access Channel 15 in Harriman aren’t merely learning the ins and outs of making video.

Instead, in their Topics in Camera Production and TV Studio Production I classes, students are learning more about the community in which they live as they select topics for three episodes to be called “Scenic Backroads.”